From TopGun to SNL! Revisit Miles Teller’s most memorable moments through the years:
. “It was very much a larger-than-life, surreal experience, you know, going from seeing these people that you’re a fan of and then you’re working with them,” he said. “It’s similar with sports. You can watch these people growing up and then be in the same industry as them.”
But Teller didn’t stay the starstruck newcomer for long. In 2014, he played an ambitious jazz drummer in the psychological drama, who played Teller’s villainous instructor, won Best Supporting Actor for his performance. The Tisch graduate performed all the drumming sequences shown in the film himself. “I started drumming when I was 15 and I had played in rock bands, but I had never played jazz,” Teller said in a 2014 interview with. He told the outlet that the frustration he felt trying to master the new genre came out in his character.
“All those guys [in the film] are real musicians so they’re really playing and I’m really playing the drums — and the music is complicated. I’m trying not to mess up. In the drum-off scene, that’s really all of us drumming as fast as we can and really expending ourselves, which is nice because it’s easier to be exhausted than to play exhausted,” he explained.
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